If a Dolphin Were a Fish (Arbordale Collection) - Hardcover

Loran Wlordarski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0976882329 ISBN 13: 9780976882329

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Join Delfina the dolphin as she imagines that she becomes other sea animals: a fish, a sea turtle, a pelican, an octopus, a shark, even a manatee! The incredible morphing illustrations will have children laughing as they learn about the real differences between these ocean animals and their respective classes.

This fictional story includes a 3-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 29-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. If A Dolphin Were A Fish is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs.

FPA Gold President's Book Award
Available in Spanish paperback edition: Si un delfín fuera un pez

About this title

From the Publisher:

"If a Dolphin Were a Fish" is part of the Accelerated Reader program used in over 57,000 schools.

FROM THE ILLUSTRATOR: Dear friends, and you who have followed Delfina's quick-change adventures---or want to---are indeed dear friends. It was the dream of a lifetime to illustrate "If a Dolphin Were a Fish" and I am honored to be able to share her story and my pictures with you. Every summer my family would come to Florida on vacation, and I would sit on my grandmother's patio drawing and making up stories. Even then, my favorite characters were dolphins and manatees. I remember the feelings of joy and excitement that came over me whenever I saw a dorsal fin in the water. I am grateful that the thrill never went away; I still smile whenever I see a wild dolphin, and now I have been given the opportunity to turn my childhood patio pictures into a real book, filled not only with dolphins but with other wild and whimsical animals you've never seen before! Of course, that's the beauty of books--anything can happen. So thank you for sharing the fun, and thank you so much for sharing my dolphin smile!

Best wishes, Laurie Allen Klein

About the Author:

Loran Wlodarski is a science writer for SeaWorld and has written five books for them in addition to his many normal daily responsibilities. He has been published in Grolier's Encyclopedia for Children and The Marine Mammal Encyclopedia. In addition, Loran has served as a scientific consultant for Ask Magazine, Random House Books, Animal Planet, Ripley's Believe It Or Not,and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Loran has raised animals his entire life, and one of his early jobs at SeaWorld's Education Department was to raise newly hatched sharks, macaws, turtles, tropical fish, and iguanas.

Award-winning illustrator Laurie Allen Klein has been a freelance artist for nearly 25 years. Over the last several years, she has worked as the on-staff artist for a marine park, where she does everything from painting life-size sea animal murals to illustrating children's activity books. Laurie has also illustrated Dear Komodo Dragon, Saving Kate's Flowers, Balloon Trees, Fur and Feathers, The Ghost of Donley Farm, If a Dolphin Were a Fish, Little Skink's Tail, Meet the Planets, Solar System Forecast, They Just Know and Where Should Turtle Be? for Arbordale. Laurie lives in Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0976882329
• ISBN 13: 9780976882329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Laurie Allen Klein